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This was the first country to industrialize.
What is England?
Who is Karl Marx?
This was the first industry (field of labor) to undergo industrialization.
What are textiles?
In this type of economic system, the means of production are owned by private individuals, which allows for greater freedom to succeed (and also freedom to fail).
What is capitalism?
The invention and development of these helped to allow people to travel and transport goods more quickly and further than before.
What are trains (railroads)?
In Marxist theory, this is the name for the group of the (poor) factory workers who made up the working class.
Who are the proletariat?
In order to raise money to expand their business, entrepreneurs will often sell these, which offer ownership in the company to those who purchase.
What are (shares of) stock?
Land, labor, and capital are examples of this, which are resources required to produce goods and services.
What are the factors of production?
Before the Industrial Revolution, goods were created by hand using this system.
What is the cottage system?
This Englishmen immigrated to the United States and brought plans for a spinning machine with him, kickstarting industrialization in the United States.
Who is Samuel Slater?
During the Industrial Revolution, we saw the construction of these crowded apartment buildings to help to house the factory workers.
In Switzerland, it is prohibited to keep a lone one of these to protect these sociable animals from feeling lonely without the company of another.
What are guinea pigs?
This is the term for the growth of cities that took place as a result of the Industrial Revolution.
What is urbanization?
Who is James Watt?
Supporters of this philosophy believe that good government is one that creates policies that benefit the greatest number of people.
What is utilitarianism?
This is the most common blood type in humans.
What is O-Positive?
This material was the basic building block of large machines, railroad tracks, trains, and ships.
What is iron (steel)?
This was the name of a group of working class laborers who destroyed machines to protest working conditions and loss of jobs.
Who were the Luddites?
This economics term, supported by Adam Smith, refers to an economy that does not have government interference.
What is laissez-faire?
This president became the only U.S. president to serve two non-consecutive terms, a unique achievement until Donald Trump’s re-election in 2024.
Who is Grover Cleveland?